Theodore D Moustakas

Dr. Moustakas is the inaugural Distinguished Professor
of Photonics and Optoelectronics at Boston University. He received his PhD from
Columbia University in 1974. He held research positions at Harvard University
and Exxon Corporate Research Laboratory prior to joining Boston University in
1987 as a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He is also a
Professor of Physics and Associate Head of the Division of Materials Science and
Engineering.

Dr.
Moustakas’ research contributions cover a broad spectrum of topics in opto-electronic materials and devices, including nitride
semiconductors, amorphous semiconductors, III-V compounds, diamond thin films
and metallic multi-layers. He is the co-editor of eight books, including Gallium
Nitride I (Academic Press, 1998) and Gallium Nitride II (academic
Press, 1999), the author of chapters in eight books and 350 papers in technical
journals and conference proceedings (Google citations about 12,000, h index 54). He
served as a special editor of the Journal of Electronic Materials and the Journal
of Vacuum Science and Technology. He presented 130 invited and plenary
talks in national and international conferences. He has been granted 32 U.S.
patents and several are pending in the fields of nitride semiconductors,
amorphous silicon and diamond materials. Intellectual property that resulted
from his work has been licensed to a number of companies, including major manufacturers
and users of blue LEDs and lasers (Cree, Nichia, Philips, OSRAM, Apple, Google,
Amazon, Samsung, LG, Sony etc.).

Dr. Moustakas is a Fellow of the American
Physical Society (1994), the Electrochemical Society (1997), a Charter Fellow
of the National Academy of Inventors (2012), and the Institute of Electrical
and Electronic Engineers-IEEE (2014). He holds an honorary doctoral degree from
the Aristotle University (2003); he received the MBE Innovator Award in 2010;
in 2011 he received the Distinguished
Scholar Award from the BU College of Engineering and in 2013 he received the
Boston University Innovator of the Year Award.